Our Vinyl - Our Generation, Our Way To Listen. Billow Observatory. [600 LP's made worldwide] Time.
It all comes back to time. The self-titled debut album from Billow Observatory — the duo comprising Danish producer Jonas Munk, aka Manual, and Auburn Lull guitarist Jason Kolb — is a record that has been nearly a decade in the making, and a record that unfolds at a stately, unhurried pace, its subtleties revealing themselves with repeated listening. Its sound reflects its creators' diverse backgrounds — Kolb's ambient guitar work, along with Munk's experience in film music and the minutiae of sound engineering — as well as their patience and devotion to their craft. The self-titled album is slated for a December 4th in North America and December 3rd worldwide.
MrGbabysupreme. Home - WME Radio - West Meets East! The 20 Best New Bands of 2011. Our Best New Artist considerations are a little different than the Grammys so you won’t see Bon Iver.
You also won’t see artists that broke bigger this year but have been covered in Paste before (like Cults, Givers, tUnE-yArDs, Reptar, Yuck and Lord Huron—some of whom were named among our Best New Bands of 2010). You won’t even see new bands made up of already established musicians (sorry Middle Brother, Wild Flag and Mister Heavenly) or solo artists (who’ll be getting their own list next week). What you will find is some great music from some exciting young bands that were brand new to us this year. Here are the 20 Best New Bands of 2011. 5. The Head and the Heart had already sold 10,000 copies of their independent debut when Sub Pop signed the group last November.
Two music critics weigh in on Seryn's new album, This Is Where We Are. Dirty Projectors - "Hi Custodian" Jukebox The Ghost covers Lana Del Rey. A Close Look At Frank Ocean's Coming Out Letter : The Record. Hide captionThe singer and songwriter Frank Ocean, whose first full-length studio album, Channel Orange, will be released on July 17.
Nabil Elderkin/Courtesy of the artist The singer and songwriter Frank Ocean, whose first full-length studio album, Channel Orange, will be released on July 17. Tuesday night the rising R&B star Frank Ocean did something important. Radio 104.5 Streaming Studio Sessions. Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends - Acoustic Guitar Lesson - How to Play. Yuna - Thinkin Bout You (Frank Ocean Cover) Playlist part 1 (200 tracks) by sorryn0tsorry. Female Vocalists. Jukebox the Ghost hardly play it ‘Safe’ in new album. The first half of the new Jukebox the Ghost album is as jaunty and upbeat as ever, but later in the journey of “Safe Travels,” the band trade in some of their certifiably danceable hooks in favor of deeper, darker introspection.
“To me, all good pop music — even good, sunny pop music — has a real hint of sadness going on,” says guitarist and singer Tommy Siegel. “If you’re all bubbles and happiness all the time, it doesn’t really resonate with people.” Siegel says that most of the songs on “Safe Travels,” were written before the band actually assembled to record. But when pianist and vocalist Ben Thornewill lost his grandfather and drummer Jesse Kristin lost his father, both to lung cancer, it gave the latter half of the album a heightened emotional power. Spotify Muscles Into Internet Radio, Makes Pandora Look Small. Pandora's catalog of 1 million songs is dwarfed by Spotify Radio's 16 million songs.
Graphic: Ryan Tate. Data: Companies. The online jukebox Spotify announced Tuesday it will offer customized internet radio stations, putting the upstart into competition with longtime netcaster Pandora. Spotify might lack Pandora’s deep experience in online radio, but it offers listeners fully 16 times more songs to choose from. That’s a discrepency of 15 million songs, which will be tricky for Pandora to explain away.
Spotify’s new radio service apparently works a lot like Pandora: You pick an anchor artist or song, and Spotify creates a “station” that streams similar music it thinks you might like. Both of Spotify’s modes, radio and jukebox, use the same gargantuan library of 16 million songs, according to a company spokesperson. MichaelLeePete. Skull violin. Stuck on Your Sci-Fi Novel? Give Each Character a Playlist. I went through an odd career shift recently — from tech entrepreneur to science fiction author.
The biggest company I started was Listen.com, which built the Rhapsody music service. We were the top seller of legal and licensed online music, until we were eclipsed (rather badly, I’ll admit) by the subsequent launch of Apple’s iTunes store. Falling slowly - Kris Allen Lyrics. 26 Allston. I Love Uke: 100 Years After Its First Wave of Popularity, the Ukulele is Back.
The Video Game Rock Medley (FreddeGredde) One Per Cent: Rapper Tupac rises from the dead for hologram show. Jacob Aron, technology reporter Rapper Tupac Shakur died over 15 years ago in a drive-by shooting, but that didn't prevent him from performing at the Coachella music festival in California last night - as a hologram.
The virtual Tupac was put together by video technology firm AV Concepts with the help of James Cameron's visual effects company, Digital Domain, using a mix of previously recorded live footage and CGI. The hologram effect was created using a system developed by London-based Musion, which uses an advanced version of a 19th century magic trick called Pepper's ghost to make virtual images appear live on stage. While the traditional Pepper's ghost illusion uses light partially reflected off a pane of glass, Musion's version involves a custom-developed foil to create more realistic images. Tupac appeared on stage alongside rappers Dr. 396 listens. US judge rules that you can't copyright pi - physics-math - 16 March 2012. Video: What pi sounds like The mathematical constant pi continues to infinity, but an extraordinary lawsuit that centred on this most beloved string of digits has come to an end.
Appropriately, the decision was made on Pi Day. On 14 March, which commemorates the constant that begins 3.14, US district court judge Michael H. Simon dismissed a claim of copyright infringement brought by one mathematical musician against another, who had also created music based on the digits of pi. "Pi is a non-copyrightable fact, and the transcription of pi to music is a non-copyrightable idea," Simon wrote in his legal opinion dismissing the case. The bizarre tale began about a year ago, when Michael Blake of Portland, Oregon, released a song and YouTube video featuring an original musical composition, "What pi sounds like", translating the constant's first few dozen digits into musical notes. Jeff Bernat - Ms. Seductive (original) Secretly Canadian.